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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2024(IX-I).02 10.31703/glr.2024(IX-I).02 Published : Mar 2024Fiction as an Escape from Postmodern Existential Dread: How Fantasy Responds to Disillusioned World
The primary intent of this research is to investigate how fiction especially fantasy series like those of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, offers to be a means to escape from the postmodern existential and pragmatic anxieties. Postmodernism is characterized by intertextuality and subjectivity in every domain of life leaving human beings in an abyss of searching for meaning and identity. The study examines how these fictional works through fictional plots and settings, irregular and unreliable narrations, and deep sketches of character arcs, provide the postmodern man with a coping mechanism against alienation, disillusionment, and existential dread. The magical idealism created by the postmodern authors navigates through the human journey of identity and existence. This paper explores how the postmodern narratives infuse a sense of disillusionment and discomfort for the readers and affirms how fantasy offers solace.
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Harry Potter, Hobbit, Postmodernism, Fantasy
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(1) Waniya Masood
Graduate Scholar, Department of English Literature and Language, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Masood, W. (2024). Fiction as an Escape from Postmodern Existential Dread: How Fantasy Responds to Disillusioned World. Global Language Review, IX(I), 9-15. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2024(IX-I).02
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CHICAGO : Masood, Waniya. 2024. "Fiction as an Escape from Postmodern Existential Dread: How Fantasy Responds to Disillusioned World." Global Language Review, IX (I): 9-15 doi: 10.31703/glr.2024(IX-I).02
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HARVARD : MASOOD, W. 2024. Fiction as an Escape from Postmodern Existential Dread: How Fantasy Responds to Disillusioned World. Global Language Review, IX, 9-15.
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MHRA : Masood, Waniya. 2024. "Fiction as an Escape from Postmodern Existential Dread: How Fantasy Responds to Disillusioned World." Global Language Review, IX: 9-15
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MLA : Masood, Waniya. "Fiction as an Escape from Postmodern Existential Dread: How Fantasy Responds to Disillusioned World." Global Language Review, IX.I (2024): 9-15 Print.
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OXFORD : Masood, Waniya (2024), "Fiction as an Escape from Postmodern Existential Dread: How Fantasy Responds to Disillusioned World", Global Language Review, IX (I), 9-15
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TURABIAN : Masood, Waniya. "Fiction as an Escape from Postmodern Existential Dread: How Fantasy Responds to Disillusioned World." Global Language Review IX, no. I (2024): 9-15. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2024(IX-I).02